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Food News

Cardboard boxes are now ‘like gold’ to food banks struggling to keep up with demand

The cost of cardboard is the latest struggle London’s food bank is adding to its list of problems, with ever-increasing demand putting pressure on the supply of boxes used to store and distribute food.

It’s yet another example of the increasingly tight situation food banks across the country are finding themselves in as inflation and other factors drive up the cost of food, rent, and even cardboard, said London Food Bank co-director Glen Pearson.

“The usage of these boxes and the need for the boxes has doubled,” Pearson said of the past two years. “It just shows you how the

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Cooking

Smoke from cooking carries health risks | News

Ethiopian woman cooking injera bread indoors over a wood fire

February 21, 2024 – In sub-Saharan Africa, cooking indoors with air polluting fuels may lead to higher risks of cancer and lung disease, particularly for women and children, according to experts.

Women breathe in unhealthy smoke when they cook indoors with biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal, and kerosene, according to a February 9 Cancerworld article. If they are pregnant, the fetus is exposed to the smoke as well. Exposure is linked to higher risks of esophageal and gastric cancers, as well as lung diseases such as pneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

To reduce the impact of unhealthy fuels,

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Recipe

Mama Kelce’s cookie recipe mugs raise money to pay off school lunch debt

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (KCTV/Gray News) – What started as selling a Mama Kelce-themed mug to the one and only Donna Kelce herself has taken off into a successful fundraiser for schoolkids.

Kelce, the mother of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, partnered with a small Kansas business called Annie’s Barn. Her personal cookie recipe is being printed on mugs to raise money to pay off school lunch debt for students at Pawnee Elementary School in Overland Park and two other elementary schools in Olathe.

That means you can bring a taste of the

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Food Networks

Food Network features Southwest Michigan chef | News

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Recipe

The Recipe for Success: In defense of young diners

Earlier this year, a New Jersey restaurant decided to ban children under 10 due to a combination of factors that included noise, mess, lack of space for high chairs, and liability issues with kids running underfoot. Not long after, a Chick-fil-A in Pennsylvania banned children under the age of 16 from dining at the restaurant without adult supervision after one too many incidents with rowdy tables of teenagers. The back-to-back news reignited an ongoing debate about whether restaurants should do more to restrict children in order to keep the peace for other diners.

The short answer? No. Kids belong in

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Recipe

Food YouTuber recreates Chef Boyardee’s original spaghetti dinner recipe

LOS ANGELES (TND) — For decades, Chef Boyardee-brand pasta products have been a staple for afterschool snacks, or special dinner treats, college dorm room standsbys and smiling faces across US grocery stores.

While the line now offers around 30 variations of tomato-sauced pasta products in canned or microwavable bowl form, the original product was a single box containing a canned pasta sauce, a box of spaghetti and a container of powdered parmesan cheese.

While the original Boyardee package has been off the market for decades, food historian and YouTuber Max Miller recently recreated the original signature spaghetti dinner in a

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Recipe

Spicy chicken recipe – a burst of black pepper in every bite!

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients

750 gms chicken (cut into medium-sized pieces)

3 tbsp of refined oil

½ tsp mustard seeds

1 tbsp ginger (chopped)

1 tbsp garlic (chopped)

1 onion (chopped)

2 sprigs of curry leaves

2 green chillies (sliced)

1 tsp ginger-garlic paste

½ tsp turmeric powder

1 tsp red chili powder

1 ½ tsp coriander powder

2 ½ tbsp of black pepper (crushed)

2 tbsp yoghurt

1 tsp garam masala

1 tsp fennel powder

Salt to taste

Method:

Step 1:

Heat oil in a deep cast iron pan over medium flame.

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‘They only know how to cook’: Congress MLA gets embroiled in controversy over sexist remark

Senior Congress MLA Shamanur Shivashankarappa landed in a controversy with his remarks on the candidate nominated by the BJP for the Davangere parliamentary seat in south Indian state of Karnataka.

BJP nominated the wife of incumbent MP and former union minister GM Siddeshwara Gayathri Siddeshwara for Karnataka’s Davangere parliamentary seat.

While addressing a party workers’ meeting, Shivashankarappa criticized the qualifications of Siddeshwara and claimed that he did not have the ability to effectively address public issues.

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